Ash Tree Cottage Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Shop, house.
Ash Tree Cottage Post Office
- WRENN ID
- stark-cellar-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Ash Tree Cottage Post Office, South Road, Lympsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 335 540
- Coordinates
- 51.28195, -2.95349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Tree Cottage Post Office is a building that serves as a shop and house, along with two attached houses. It dates from the 19th century and is constructed of stucco with slate roofs divided into three distinct sections. The roof over the Post Office is hipped with coped verges and features three brick stacks.
The Post Office has a single bay frontage facing Church Road, with two storeys. The first floor includes a 2-light casement window, while the ground floor features two segmental bow windows with glazing bars and a central door opening that has a half-glazed door. This door and the windows are sheltered by a wooden pentice supported on brackets.
The frontage facing South Road is also two storeys and consists of a 1:3:3 bay arrangement, predominantly featuring sash windows with glazing bars. The windows at No 3 are set under stopped labels. There are three door openings, each with 6-panelled doors, where the top two panels are glazed, except for the 20th-century French windows located to the left.
Local climate
Ash Tree Cottage Post Office receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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